It is a real scourge in football in recent years: cruciate ligament injuries. This Saturday, Real Madrid lost Eder Militao for the season after the Brazilian’s new cruciate knee ligament injury. And Villarreal could fear the same thing for their striker Ilias Akhomach. Scorer this Saturday with his team, the Moroccan international was immediately taken out on a stretcher.
Very quickly, the fear of a rupture of the cruciate ligaments appeared. And at a press conference, his trainer Marcelino did not seem very reassuring. “We are worried. “It’s a knee injury and we’ll see the extent. I hope the diagnosis is as light as possible. It seemed like it hurt a little more on the side and I hope it’s something lighter than we always think: the fucking crusaders”